Best Sonic Youth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stucco as there is today: no mini malls with their approximation of Spanish two-story buildings, no oversized SUVs bulging out of parking-space lines. What used to say "Spanish-style" is now something diseased looking. Nobody seems to know how to stucco anymore.”

Funny Sonic Youth 60s L A Stucco

Book:Girl in a Band

Source: Girl in a Band

“[...] to overcome my own hypersensitivity, I had no choice but to turn fearless.”

Inspirational Music Sonic Youth

Book:Girl in a Band

Source: Girl in a Band

“I remember how the book talked about the pressure to please and be perfect that every woman falls into and then projects onto her daughter. Nothing is ever good enough. No woman can ever outrun what she has to do. No one can be all things - a mother, a good partner, a lover, as well as a competitor in the workplace.”

Feminism Sonic Youth

Book:Girl in a Band

Source: Girl in a Band

“Hardcore groups were singing songs about Ronald Reagan. I wasn't interested in this and preferred to sing about the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture. I suppose you could say that Sonic Youth was always trying to defy people's expectations.”

Political Expectations Hardcore Sonic Youth Kim Gordon Ronal Reagan

Book:Girl in a Band

Source: Girl in a Band

“A fantastic Riot Boy, Trash the Senses.. -Thurston Moore”

Sonic Youth

Book:Happy Ending

Source: Happy Ending

“One night I had been listening to [Goo], downstairs with Espen, we had been smoking hash, and I was lost in the music, literally, I saw it as rooms and corridors, floors and walls, ditches and slopes, small forests between apartment blocks and railway lines, and didn't emerge from it until the song stopped, it was like drawing breath because the next minute a new song started and I was caught again.”

Literature Music Sonic Youth

Book:Min kamp 5

Source: Min kamp 5

“I've never been good with structure—doing assignments for the sake of them or doing things I'm supposed to do.”

Creativity Structure Sonic Youth Kim Gordon

Author:Kim Gordon

“Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.”

Important Youth Eighty Pixies Sonic Youth

Author:David Bowie

“Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.”

People Way Giving Feels I Can Feelings Turns Morning Youth Son Band Music Is Give Me Fighter Pearls Giver Jackets Jam Posing Turn Me Pearl Jam Foo Fighters Sonic Youth

Book:Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe

Source: Waging Heavy Peace Deluxe

“Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.”

Want Doe Ideas Song Turns Youth Members Solo Sonic Youth

Author:Thurston Moore

“Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words”

People Writing Three Process Interest Interesting Youth Expression Involvement Sonic Youth

Author:Thurston Moore

“We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.”

Youth Folks Noise Psychedelic Sonic Youth

Author:Scott Putesky

“There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.”

Shows Sides Can Do Youth Projects Appropriate Sonic Youth

Author:Kim Gordon

“I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead of making criticism about popular culture, as a lot of artists do, I worked within it to do something.”

Way Art Artist Culture Youth Projects Criticism Extensions Popular Culture Warhol Conceptual Art Art Projects Sonic Youth

Author:Kim Gordon